Word: gothicized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...probably monastic) of Newhaven and Cambridge and compared them with similar institutions in or near Europe. It had been hitherto assumed that this phase of American architecture was a product of the Catholic revival of the twentieth century, but such hasty conclusions must now be discarded, for the magnificent Gothic ruins at Newhaven indubitably attest the existence of a flourishing scholastic culture as early as the first years of the fifteenth century. Henceforth we must antedate the permanent colonization of the so-called New World by at least a hundred years, unless we blind ourselves to such minute and convincing...
Princeton is to erect a most expensive chapel with all the English Gothic fixings so dear to the American heart, possibly including secluded stalls in the choir for the members of the eating clubs. With this announcement came the blasting notice that the undergraduate body was petitioning for the abolition of compulsory chapel attendance...
...skyscraper-to-be said: "To plant the spirit of achievement, ... by a great high building ... to interpret the spirit of Pittsburgh ... to build a memorial to the achievers of Pittsburgh" (TIME, Nov. 17). Loafer: "The soul in cubic feet. Achievement by tonnage. Unquestioning faith in millionaires and land-values. Gothic doodads for moments of sentiment...
...exerted strong influence, not merely as was natural upon students in his own Department, but upon the large group of students in the closely related Department of English. Hundreds of these men, now holding positions of responsibility all over the country, got in connection with his course in Gothic their general introduction to Germanic Philology. This course in particular has been a model of substantiality and skillful presentation. Both within and without the University, Professor von Jagemann is in high repute among the fraternity of scholars, as appears from his election a quarter of a century ago to the Presidency...
...Henry Yates Satterlee of Boston. Said the New York 'Evening Journal: "If Miss Goodhue elects St. Thomas's Church, she will pass through the 'bride door,' decorations for which were designed by her father, who cunningly concealed the dollar sign in a maze of Gothic carving, thereby arousing the indignation of many wealthy parishioners...